Django-ratelimit-backend

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Rate-limit your login attempts at the authentication backend level. Login attempts are stored in the cache for 5 minutes and IPs with more than 30 failed login attempts in the last 5 minutes are blocked.

The numbers (30 attempts, 5 minutes) as well as the blocking strategy can be customized.

• Authors: Bruno Renié and contributors_

  .. _contributors: https://github.com/brutasse/django-ratelimit-backend/contributors

• Licence: BSD

• Compatibility: Django 1.8 and greater

• Documentation: https://django-ratelimit-backend.readthedocs.io

• Code: https://github.com/brutasse/django-ratelimit-backend

Credits

• Simon Willison for his ratelimitcache_ idea

  .. _ratelimitcache: http://blog.simonwillison.net/post/57956846132/ratelimitcache

Hacking

::

git clone https://brutasse@github.com/brutasse/django-ratelimit-backend.git

Hack and run the tests::

python setup.py test

To run the tests for all supported Python and Django versions::

pip install tox
tox